Tokyo -- Three Tokyo toon houses - Studio 4C, Production I.G. and Madhouse -- will animate the six shorts in the "Batman: Gotham Knight" project for Warner Bros. according to a report in "Wizard" magazine.

The three studios involved also participated in the "Animatrix" project -- nine shorts relating the back story of the "Matrix" pics. The Wachowski brothers supervised the project and Warner Bros. released it on DVD in the US in 2003.

According to "Wizard," Bruce Timm will helm all six shorts, based on scripts by American writers, most associated with the "Batman" comic and pic franchises. Other sources, however, say that Japanese anime maestro Satoshi Kon will also helm one or more segments.

The stories will expand on the universe of the two Christopher Nolan Batman pics: "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight." The animation, however, will be handled entirely by the three Japanese studios. Release is skedded before the summer 2008 bow "The Dark Knight."

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